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this photo is from the wikipedia page on the Milky Way. It’s A fish-eye mosaic of the Milky Way arching at a high inclination across the night sky, shot from a dark-sky location in Chile

I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS MONTH’S EPISODE!!!

1. It’s about the milky way galaxy. Where it comes from, where it’s gonna go, where we are within it, and how we know about it.

2. Erin McGathy is on it! She’s a podcaster and comedian out of LA. She has a podcast called “This feels terrible” , which is fantastic and cathartic! She’s frequently a cohost of the Harmontown podcast. She’s even on twitter and instagram. Anyway i was super nervous until she got on the show and it was lots of fun.

3. Amanda Bauer’s back. hooray! Also Rupinder Brar. It’s a power team. I barely had to edit, their words come out so smooth and so good.

This particular episode has an amazing conversation about science culture. It’s after the end credits and it must not be missed. it’s amazing.

Hello again Ben. I’ve found and listened to the QB episodes. Thanks for the help with locating them.

Since you seem to have ready access to a cosmologist, I’d like to offer for QB a trio of related cosmological questions that have bugged me for some time.

1. How do we know that all the matter in the universe came from the big bang?

2. How do we know that the big bang did not expand into an existing precursor universe? (It seems plausible to me that this may be the case but we have no way to know because the hyperinflation immediately after the big bang and accelerating expansion due to dark energy will permanently keep us outside of the light cone of any event in this hypothetical precursor universe. I’m not fond of unfalsifiable theories…)”

this is a visual metaphor for how Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Works… apparently.

magnetic resonance. you know MRIs? “Magnetic resonance Imaging” is what it stands for, “Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging” is what it actually stands for. Essentially, magnets are used to make the nuclei in your atoms stand up and dance.

This is actually one of my favourite episodes to date! We actually manage to explain how NMR works!!